Minister responsible for anglophone relations, Jean-François Lisée, clarified there is no law saying workers can't speak English to one another. Photo via CBC.In an ongoing row between Quebec's culture police and residents who dare to speak, read or write languages other than French, a new battlefield has emerged.

A young woman says she was told she couldn't speak English while working at a local grocery store, not even to her co-workers and not even at lunch.

The incident follows on the heels of much-publicized attacks against Italian restaurant menus and big retail store signs. It begs the question: Should the state stay out of the break rooms of the province?

CTV Newsreports that 17-year-old Meaghan Moran was forbidden to speak English by supervisors at an IGA grocery store in Saint-Lambert, Que. The part-time worker was even told she had to speak French during her breaks.

Flames shoot up at the scene of a propane explosion at Sunrise Propane in Toronto as dawn breaks on Aug. 10, 2008.

On an early August morning in 2008, a massive fireball engulfed a community in northern Toronto, setting the sky ablaze for the entire city to see, forcing the evacuation of thousands of residents and killing one man – an employee of the propane company at the heart of the explosion.

For five years the residents of that neighbourhood had no one to blame, and the family of the victim, Parminder Saini, had nothing tangible to hold onto to understand his death. Culpability was placed nowhere, as if massive propane explosions simply happen from time to time. Five years later, there is an answer.

On Thursday, the Sunrise Propane Energy Group was found guilty of a list of offences, from failing to provide a safe workplace to failing to adhere to Ontario's environmental protection laws.

The Canadian Pressreports the company and two directors were found guilty of nine provincial charges connected to the explosion and subsequent cleanup. It is, perhaps, the most visible example of a company being

Vancouver's Franco Yiu Kwan Orr was found guilty of human trafficking on Wednesday, in a case that pitted him and his partner against a Filipino nanny who claimed she was mistreated, segregated and abused.

Orr was found guilty of trafficking and illegally employing a foreign national as well as lying to immigration officials about Leticia Sarmiento, who had worked for his family in Canada since 2008.

The Canadian Press reports that Sarmiento previously worked for Orr and his partner, Oi Ling Nicole Huen, in Hong Kong and was promised similar working conditions when she moved with them to Canada.

Instead, she was forced to work 16-hour days, seven days a week, barred from socializing, owning a cell phone and forced to cook and clean their house, tasks not previously under her purview as a nanny. She also

The supposed existence of a video recording of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking from a crack pipe is still up in the air, but at least we know one thing.

'Slurpy' Ford is real, and he's spectacular.

The National Post has tracked down the mysterious figure that became embroiled in the fallout of the crack video scandal - a man said to bear a striking resemblance to the mayor, who a group of Ford supporters tried to recruit to star in a fake crack video.

The whole thing is said to have been an attempt to discredit an actual video, which reporters from two separate news organizations say they have seen and allege captures the mayor smoking drugs.

None of this has anything to do with Slurpy, whose real name is Neil, and whose only apparent association is that he is passing acquaintances with a man living in an Etobicoke apartment – where the video is said to have been held for a time.

“I tried to steer away from this right from the beginning. I don’t even look like the guy,” Slurpy, er, Neil told

A court sketch shows murder victim Tiffany Gayle's parents, Federick, and stepmother Elizabeth Gayle.She came to Canada to be with her family, but there is little indication that she found a home here, not even for a moment.

Tiffany Gayle, a 15-year-old girl who moved to Brampton, Ont., from Jamaica, was found dead in June 2010, beaten and left in a bloody bathtub just 17 months after coming to Canada to live with her father and stepmother.

She fought with her parents, who threatened to send her back to Jamaica, and wrote that she couldn’t make her caretakers happy.

On Wednesday, those caretakers were found guilty of murder.

680 News reports Fedrick Gayle, 45, and Elizabeth Gayle, 46, were found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of 15-year-old Tiffany Gayle.

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford and his brother, Coun. Doug Ford, were taking calls to their radio show for months from longtime friend and current staffer David Price, without apparently being able to recognize his voice.

Yet it took the Toronto Sun's Don Peat only a few seconds before he managed to ID the serial anonymous caller.

Price was suspended from Ford's office after placing a call to the Sun's city hall reporter on Tuesday, to complain about the headline of a story.

The story in question was related to the revelation that Price had appeared on the Ford's Sunday morning radio program a number of times, always anonymously trumpeting Ford's agenda and personal successes.

CBC News first reported the instances, saying Price was told to stop calling when he joined the mayor's staff. The Sun reports that, in response to their own coverage, Price called the newspaper from a blocked number.

Despite the bluster of Canada's public transit movement, pressures to lead fit, healthy lifestyles and complaints from commuters mired in rage-inducing traffic, it seems we are still a country of drivers.

The vast majority of us still get behind the wheel to get to work, according to new statistics, and public transit systems have seen only a small handful of new riders. The nation's community of commuter cyclists isn't growing. And very few of us would deign to catch a ride in someone else's car.

Perish the thought. More people walk to work than get into the passenger seat.

The National Household Survey released new details on Wednesday about Canada's commuting habits. But those new details paint an old picture.

Roughly 15.4 million Canadians commuted to work in 2011, using cars, buses, bikes and occasionally ferries. The survey found that three-quarters of those commuters, 11.4 million folks, drove to work.

Former Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty returned to the political battlefield on Tuesday, tasked with answering questions from a commission investigating the costly and politically opportune gas plant cancellations.

He did that, sure. Although maybe not to the degree the opposition-led commission would have preferred.

But the real fireworks came when McGuinty dismissed the affair as partisan gamesmanship, waxing poetic about the state of politics in Canada and citing ancient Roman statesman Cato the Elder for some reason.

"We need to understand this exercise for what it truly is. It is not a genuine effort on the part of the opposition to seek out the truth. They are partisan," McGuinty said of the commission during a post-appearance press conference.

He added later: "I'm not looking for votes now. I think it is important to talk about these things."